Terms of Use
Through eNews (the "Services") Contact Multimedia ("Contact
Multimedia") provides web site operators and other individuals a
variety of tools and resources to collect visitor e-mail addresses
and to create, launch, and manage online e-mail campaigns. This
service may not be used for the sending of unsolicited e-mail
(sometimes called "spam"). See our Anti-Spam Policy. The following are
the terms and conditions for use of the Services. By checking the
"I have read the eNews Terms of Use statement. I accept these terms
and conditions" box on the Free Trial page or after logging in for
the first time, you accept these terms and conditions.
1. Services and Support
1.1 The Services are provided subject to this
Agreement, as it may be amended by Contact Multimedia, and any
guidelines, rules or operating policies that Contact
Multimedia may establish and post from time to time (the
"Agreement"). By posting updated versions of the Agreement at
the Contact Multimedia web site, or otherwise providing notice
to you, Contact Multimedia may modify the terms of the
Agreement and may discontinue or revise any or all other aspects of
the Services at its sole discretion. All such changes shall become
effective upon posting of the revised Agreement on the Service.
1.2 The Services are available only to persons
who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law.
Without limiting the foregoing, the Services are not available to
individuals under the age of 18. If you do not qualify, please do
not use the Services.
1.3 The Services enable corporate web sites,
small business web sites, and community sites to sign up web site
visitors, collect and retrieve visitor sign-up data, and develop
and execute e-mail communications with visitors and other targeted
prospects.
1.4 Both the number of e-mail messages sent and
the number of KiloBytes of data transferred are metered by Contact
Multimedia. Normal eNews accounts allow you to send an unlimited
number of e-mail messages. The total KiloByte data transfer of each
message can be no more than 100kb.
1.5 All email delivery prices are subject to
change with a 30 day notice period. All fees paid to Contact
Multimedia for eNews are non-refundable, unless an account is
terminated by Contact Multimedia for a reason other than
violation of the Anti-Spam Policy. Payment for Services
will be made by a valid credit card accepted by Contact Multimedia,
unless other payment arrangements have been made between you and an
authorized Contact Multimedia representative. You hereby
authorize Contact Multimedia to charge your credit card for
such amounts whenever you send a campaign to more than 5
recipients. Fees are payable in US dollars or Australian dollars.
If Contact Multimedia is for any reason unable to effect
automatic payment via your credit card, you will be notified via
e-mail. All prices are subject to change and you are responsible
for reviewing the Pricing Schedule from time to time and remaining
aware of the Fees charged by Contact Multimedia.
1.6 For all accounts, Contact Multimedia may
charge an account re-activation fee should an account need to be
re-activated by customer after an account has become de-activated
due to non-payment or an untimely authorization for payment.
1.7 You will provide true, accurate, current,
and complete information about yourself as requested in the
registration form. As part of the registration process, you will
identify an e-mail address and password for your Contact Multimedia
account. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your
account, passwords, and files, and for all uses of your account and
of the Services in your name. Contact Multimedia reserves the
right to refuse registration of, or cancel, accounts it deems
inappropriate.
1.8 It is understood that Contact
Multimedia makes no guarantee that HTML messages will be rendered
properly on all recipients' e-mail programs, due to the wide
variety of HTML generation tools available. Contact Multimedia
makes every attempt to make sure that all e-mail messages sent
through our servers follow e-mail standards, but we cannot
guarantee that messages will look consistent across all e-mail
platforms due to the number of different HTML composition tools
available. For example, if you use Microsoft Word to generate HTML
e-mail messages, it is expected that recipients of your message
using a non-Microsoft e-mail application may have difficulty
reading your message. For best results Contact Multimedia
recommends, but does not guarantee, the use of HTML editors that
generate HTML that adheres to W3C standards.
2. Restrictions and Responsibilities
2.1 This is an Agreement for Services, and you
are not granted a license to any software by this Agreement. You
will not, directly or indirectly: reverse engineer, decompile,
disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code,
object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of, or
found at or through the Services or any software, documentation, or
data related to the Services ("Software"); remove any proprietary
notices or labels from the Services or any Software, modify,
translate, or create derivative works based on the Services or any
Software; or copy, distribute, pledge, assign, or otherwise
transfer or encumber rights to the Services or any Software. The
Services shall be used for your internal business (which includes
civic or charitable) purposes only and you shall not use the
Services or any Software for timesharing or service bureau purposes
or otherwise for the benefit of a third party. If you are using the
Services in any country in the European Community, the prohibition
against modifying, translating, reverse engineering, decompiling,
disassembling or creating derivative works based on the Services or
the Software does not affect your rights under any legislation
implementing the E.C. Council Directive on the Legal Protection of
Computer Programs.
2.2 You acknowledge and agree that the Services
and the Contact Multimedia company names and logos and all
related product and service names, design marks and slogans, are
the property of Contact Multimedia or its affiliates or
suppliers (collectively, the "Marks"). You are not authorized to
use any of the Marks in any advertising, publicity or any other
commercial manner without the prior written consent of Contact
Multimedia. Your use of the Services confers no title or ownership
in the Service, the Software or the Marks and is not a sale of any
rights in the Service, the Software or the Marks. All ownership
rights remain in Contact Multimedia or its third party
suppliers, as the case may be.
2.3 You represent, covenant, and warrant that
you will use the Services only in compliance with the Agreement and
all applicable laws (including but not limited to policies and laws
related to spamming, privacy, obscenity, or defamation). You agree
you will not access or otherwise use third party mailing lists in
connection with preparing or distributing unsolicited e-mail to any
third party. You hereby agree to indemnify and hold
harmless Contact Multimedia against any damages, losses,
liabilities, settlements, and expenses (including without
limitation costs and reasonable attorneys' fees) in connection with
any claim or action that arises from an alleged violation of the
foregoing or otherwise arising from or relating to your use of the
Services. Although Contact Multimedia has no obligation to
monitor the content provided by you or your use of the
Services, Contact Multimedia may do so and may remove any such
content or prohibit any use of the Services it believes may be (or
is alleged to be) in violation of the foregoing.
2.4 The Services may only be used for lawful
purposes. Transmission or solicitation of any material that
violates Australian federal, state, UK, USA or other laws that may
apply in your local area is prohibited. This may include material
that is obscene, threatening, harassing, libelous, or in any way a
violation of intellectual property laws or a third party's
intellectual property rights.
2.5 In using the varied features of the
Services, you may provide information (such as name, contact
information, or other registration information) to Contact
Multimedia. Contact Multimedia may use this information and
any technical information about your use of the Services to tailor
its presentations to you, facilitate your movement through the
Service, or communicate separately with you.
2.6 Contact Multimedia will not use any of your
subscriber lists or any other customer information for any other
purposes than those intended with the service. Your customer
information will not be shared with any other parties. In
addition, Contact Multimedia will not use your customer
information for the purpose of sending unsolicited commercial
e-mail.
2.7 You will adopt and maintain the Privacy Policy,
which may be modified by Contact Multimedia from time to
time.
2.8 You may not use Contact Multimedia to
distribute illegal contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, or
multi-level marketing campaigns
2.9 You may not use Contact Multimedia to
send email campaigns that link to or display nudity, obscene
content, gambling related content, pharmaceutical related content,
illegal software, viruses, or to distribute any other content that
we deem inappropriate.
3. Termination
3.1 You may terminate this Agreement at any
time by sending an e-mail message to support@contactmultimedia.co.uk
or by sending written notice to Contact Multimedia, Unit 1/1,
Glasgow, G13 2TL. Correspondence must include your first name, last
name, and Contact Multimedia username. No refunds will be
issued if you terminate this agreement.
3.2 Contact Multimedia may terminate this
Agreement or the Services at any time with or without cause, and
with or without notice. Contact Multimedia shall have no
liability to you or any third party because of such termination.
If Contact Multimedia terminates this agreement because you
violated the Anti-Spam policy, no refund will be
issued.
3.3 Contact Multimedia may delete any of your
archived data within 30 days after the date of termination. All
sections of this Agreement which by their nature should survive
termination will survive termination, including, without
limitation, ownership, warranty disclaimers and limitations of
liability.
3.4 If you do not log into your account for
more than 120 days, the account will become inactive. When an
account is classified (at Contact Multimedias sole discretion) as
inactive, Contact Multimedia will flag that account as
inactive. INACTIVE ACCOUNTS HAVE 30 DAYS TO BECOME ACTIVE OR THE
ACCOUNT AND ITS DATA, INCLUDING SUBSCRIBER SIGNUPS, MAY BE
PERMANENTLY REMOVED FROM THE CONTACT MULTIMEDIA DATABASE.
4. Warranty Disclaimer; Remedies
USE OF THE SERVICES AND ANY RELIANCE BY YOU UPON THE SERVICES,
INCLUDING ANY ACTION TAKEN BY YOU BECAUSE OF SUCH USE OR RELIANCE,
IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. Contact Multimedia DOES NOT WARRANT THAT
THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DOES IT MAKE
ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE
SERVICES. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND Contact
Multimedia DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
Your sole and exclusive remedy for any failure or nonperformance
of the Services shall be for Contact Multimedia to use
commercially reasonable efforts to adjust or repair the
Services.
5. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE,
SHALL Contact Multimedia OR ANY OF ITS UNDERLYING SERVICE
PROVIDERS, BUSINESS PARTNERS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS, ACCOUNT
PROVIDERS, LICENSORS, EMPLOYEES, DISTRIBUTORS OR AGENTS
(COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION AS "Contact
Multimedia ") BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY MONEY
DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, COVER,
RELIANCE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF Contact Multimedia
SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR
ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY. IN THE EVENT THAT NOTWITHSTANDING THE
FOREGOING, Contact Multimedia IS FOUND LIABLE TO YOU FOR
DAMAGES FROM ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF
THE ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE),
PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE), THE LIABILITY OF Contact
Multimedia TO YOU WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE
SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS
LIMITATION AND EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
6. Export of Services or Technical Data
You may not remove or export from UK or allow the export or
re-export of the Services, or any direct product thereof, including
technical data, in violation of any restrictions, laws, or
regulations of UK or any other applicable country.
7. Miscellaneous
7.1 If any provision of the Agreement is found
to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or
eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that this Agreement
will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
7.2 Contact Multimedia and you agree that the
Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual
understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all
previous written and oral agreements, communications, and other
understandings relating to the subject matter of the Agreement, and
that all waivers and modifications must be in a writing signed by
both parties, except as otherwise provided herein. No delay or
omission by either party in exercising any right or remedy under
this Agreement or existing at law or equity shall be considered a
waiver of such right or remedy.
7.3 No agency, partnership, joint venture, or
employment is created as a result of the Agreement, and you do not
have any authority of any kind to bind Contact Multimedia in
any respect whatsoever.
7.4 In any action or proceeding to enforce
rights under the Agreement, the prevailing party will be entitled
to recover its costs and attorneys' fees.
7.5 The Agreement shall be governed by the laws
of the UK without regard to its choice or law or conflict of laws
provisions. All legal actions in connection with the Agreement
shall be brought in the courts located in Glasgow, Scotland,
UK.
8. System Requirements
It is understood that in order to use Contact Multimedia, a
Windows PC with Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher must be used.
Additionally, a stable connection to the Internet is
required. Contact Multimedia may work in a limited manner on
Macintosh, Unix, and other platforms, but there is no guarantee of
functionality on non-Windows platforms. Additionally, Contact
Multimedia may work in a limited manner on a non-Internet Explorer
web browser (such as Netscape Navigator), but there is no guarantee
of full functionality on web browsers other than Microsoft's
Internet Explorer.
9. Compliance rules for sending e-mail
All Contact Multimedia customers must follow the rules of
the federal CAN-SPAM act and Contact Multimedia's Anti-Spam
policy when sending e-mail through the service. Accordingly, we
require the following of e-mail messages sent through
the Contact Multimedia system:
- All e-mails must contain a one-click unsubscribe
link. Contact Multimedia scans every campaign for the
existance of an unsubscribe link. If an unsubscribe link is not
detected, the user is informed and is recommended to include an
unsubscribe link before continuing.
- All e-mails must contain non-Internet contact information of
the sender, such as your company's address, or your company's phone
number.
- All e-mails must state the reason the recipient is receiving
the message. For example, "You are receiving this message from ABC
Company because you signed up for our e-mail list at
www.abc.com."
These 3 guidelines will help ensure that Contact Multimedia
maintains its reputation and white-listing status with a number of
major ISPs and whitelisting programs. If at any time your campaign
is flagged as SPAM by an AOL recipient, Contact Multimedia
reserves the right to cancel your account without notice.
10. Email and Permission Practices
10.1 Every email message sent in connection
with the Services must contain an "unsubscribe" link or other
mechanism that allows subscribers to remove themselves from your
mailing list. Each such link must remain operational for a period
of thirty (30) days after the date on which you send the message,
and must be in form and substance satisfactory to Contact
Multimedia. You acknowledge and agree that you will not remove,
disable or attempt to remove or disable either link.
10.2 You agree to import, access or otherwise
use only permission-based lists (note: purchased lists may not be
used; please contact Contact Multimedia if you have
questions).
10.3 You cannot mail to distribution lists,
newsgroups, or spam email addresses.
10.4 You are responsible for monitoring,
correcting, processing unsubscribe requests within 10 days, and
updating the email addresses to which messages are sent through
your Contact Multimedia account.
10.5 Emails that you send through the Service
may generate abuse complaints from recipients. You are responsible
for ensuring that your email campaigns do not generate a number of
abuse complaints in excess of industry norms. Contact Multimedia,
in its sole discretion, shall determine whether your level of abuse
complaints is within industry norms, and its determination shall be
final, binding and conclusive for all purposes under this
Agreement.
10.6 Contact Multimedia, at its own discretion,
may immediately disable your access without refund to the Services
if Contact Multimedia believes in its sole discretion that you
have violated any of the email and permission practices listed
above, or the Contact Multimedia Anti-Spam Policy.